A Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy Of Anti-Immigration – OpEd
Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating
Read moreDeporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating
Read moreMy birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment with settler colonialism
Read moreSocieties survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them.
Read moreThe Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport
Read moreThe immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years.
Read moreAn old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion
Read moreThe evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions,
Read moreFrom its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt
Read moreIn the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French “centrist” President
Read moreBoth Trump and Biden imposed high tariffs on imported products made in China and other countries. Those impositions broke with
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